Body

Because your body so potently depicts the image you have of yourself, any changes, distortions or collapse of the body image in your dreams suggests similar effects in your personality or the way you feel about yourself.

Any part of your body you dream about has two possible associations. One is a link with the actual body organ or part, and the other is its psychological meaning. Usually it refers to the psyche rather than the body. So, for instance, your sexual organs reflect all the deep feelings or uncertainties you link with that part of you. Your legs with everything involved in ’standing up’.

The condition you see your body in often represents what you fear or feel about yourself, maybe unconsciously. For instance you may be frightened of illness, so dream of a sick body.

In brief, your body, or another person’s body, can represent:

1. Existence. Physical existence. The process of life as it acts in and throughout your body systems, as can be seen in maturing and ageing. The potential out of which your growth occurs.
2. An aspect of your personality, of your experience, or memories.
3. A body of the opposite sex depicts your non-dominant side, the parts of yourself that exist but are not given as much expression.
4. Your body is an expression of your total history, not only of your own personal life, but also the countless generations and stages of history and evolution of which it is the latest outcrop.
5. Your body in a dream can be a graphic illustration of your hidden feelings or worries, your pains and strengths.
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7. Dreaming of a body that has been killed or buried usually refers to events of your own past, especially deeply felt emotions or struggles.
8. Dreaming you have no body might mean you feel you are a ‘nobody’.

See: Arm; Legs; Head; Abdomen; Feet.